Virtual staging used in home listings is very dishonest

Just buy really small furniture.

I think staging is dumb, I'd rather see an empty room.

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Mingo's house

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It always reminds me of dog/cat products on Amazon b/c the Chinese sellers can never accurately insert the cat/dog into the product picture

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the Chinese sellers can never accurately insert the cat/dog into the product picture

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They keep eating them too quickly.

It is more efficient and coat effective. Go visit the house and use your imagination

We’ve done both ways. It helps the potential buyer view or picture how their potential furniture etc will work in the property.
The house we sold in Baton Rouge one bedroom we virtually staged the rest of property we used our furniture.
We did use a professional stager to help with moving furniture around etc.
Property went under contract in 2 days.
Landscaping and pool helped as well.

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Angling the camera in ways that exaggerate depth.

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This one is hard to overcome since realtors use camera lenses that are intended to capture as much of the room as possible in a single shot. It inevitably results in misrepresentation of the size of a room in the photos since the depth is exaggerated by the camera. Easiest way to spot this and account for it is to look for floor tile and see how rectangular they appear versus how square they ought to appear. That can give you at least a little idea of the actual size of the room in the photo.

This was one of the things that pissed me off the most when the wife and I were searching for homes a couple years ago. What you found when you went to actually see a property was significantly smaller and more cramped than what was seemingly represented in the photos.

A lot of them are starting to use AI for home photographs/staging. Sometimes they'll list is REALLY tiny on the photo (so worth looking for). They're supposed to be disclosed in the listing, so if you come across this and they don't disclose make sure you report it.

We pulled up the neighbor's listing the other day (in a house we've seen the inside of) and it was clearly AI in some areas.

The online staging photos for my house used a setup in one of the bedrooms that is impossible. If the bed was oriented the way they showed it online, the backboard would block the bathroom and bedroom closets.

That was pretty egregious. My guess was the photoshopper hadn't been in the house and had no clue what was behind the camera.